To see thee in our waters yet appeare,
And make those flights vpon the bankes of _Thames_,
That so did take _Eliza_, and our _Iames_!
But stay, I see thee in the _Hemisphere_
Aduanc'd, and made a Constellation there!
Shine forth, thou Starre of _Poets_, and with rage,
Or influence, chide, or cheere the drooping Stage;
Which, since thy flight fro hence, hath mourn'd like night,
And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.

BEN: IONSON.

VPON THE LINES AND LIFE OF THE FAMOUS

Scenicke Poet, Master WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Those hands, which you so clapt, go now, and wring
You _Britaines_ braue; for done are _Shakespeares_ dayes:
His dayes are done, that made the dainty Playes,
Which made the Globe of heau'n and earth to ring.
Dry'de is that veine, dry'd is the _Thespian_ Spring,
Turn'd all to teares, and _Ph[oe]bus_ clouds his rayes:
That corp's, that coffin now besticke those bayes,
Which crown'd him _Poet_ first, then _Poets_ King.
If _Tragedies_ might any _Prologue_ haue,
All those he made, would scarse make one to this:
Where _Fame_, now that he gone is to the graue
(Deaths publique tyring-house) the _Nuncius_ is.
For though his line of life went soone about,
The life yet of his lines shall neuer out.

HVGH HOLLAND.

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TO THE MEMORIE

of the deceased Authour Maister

W. SHAKESPEARE

_Shake-speare_, at length thy pious fellowes giue
The world thy Workes: thy Workes, by which, out-liue
Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that stone is rent,
And Time dissolues thy _Stratford_ Moniment,
Here we aliue shall view thee still. This Booke,
When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke
Fresh to all Ages: when Posteritie
Shall loath what's new, thinke all is prodegie
That is not _Shake-speares_ eu'ry Line, each Verse
Here shall reuiue, redeeme thee from thy Herse.
Nor Fire, nor cankring Age, as _Naso_ said,
Of his, thy wit-fraught Booke shall once inuade.
Nor shall I e're beleeue, or thinke thee dead
(Though mist) vntill our bankrout Stage be sped
(Jmpossible) with some new straine t'out-do
Passions of _Iuliet_, and her _Romeo_;
Or till J heare a S